We have examined potential dissociations between lexical and grammatical knowledge in language impairment by investigating noun plurals and plural formation inside compounds in Williams Syndrome (WS) subjects. For comparison, we also report results from studies investigating the same linguistic phenomena in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). We found that nouns taking regular plu...

Set representations are explicitly expressed in natural language. For example, many languages distinguish between sets and subsets (all vs. some), as well as between singular and plural sets (a cat vs. some cats). Three experiments explored the hypothesis that these representations are language specific, and thus absent from the conceptual resources of non-linguistic animals. We found that rhes...

The meaning of ‘we’ is usually seen as ‘I þ others’. Russian, along with many other languages, has a construction that allows an overt specification of ‘others’, the so-called Plural Pronoun Construction (PPC), which involves a plural pronoun and a comitative phrase. The syntactic behavior of this comitative phrase differs from that of other withphrases such as VP-adjuncts, NP-adjuncts, and com...

The research investigated the time course of integrative semantic processing during sentence processing. Reading time was measured on sentences containing an NP composed of an adjective and a noun whose combined meaning was plausible or anomalous (Experiment 1) or was typical or atypical (Experiment 2). The noun in the NP was either plural or singular. Plural nouns were expected to be more rapi...

We describe the non–commutative extension of the computer algebra system Singular, called Plural. In the system, we provide rich functionality for symbolic computation within a wide class of non– commutative algebras. We discuss the computational objects of Plural, the implementation of main algorithms, various aspects of software engineering and numerous applications. Singular:Plural or, short...

The semantics of natural language plurals poses a number of intricate problems – both from a formal and a computational perspective. In this thesis I investigate problems of representing, disambiguating and reasoning with plurals from a computational perspective. The work defines a computationally suitable representation for important plural constructions, proposes a tractable resolution algori...

Documentary film is a popular resource amongst peacebuilding organisations and practitioners. Despite this popularity, research on documentary still emerging in peace conflict studies. This article explores film’s role the study practice of by examining Demons Paradise its engagement with issues post-war Sri Lanka. makes conceptual, methodological, empirical contributions. Drawing from research...

This paper addresses the question of how to model the application of vague predicates like tall and bald to plural subjects like John and Mary and the men. In other words, we are interested in developing a logical analysis for natural language sentences like Mary is tall and The men are bald. In the past 30 years, much research has been devoted to finding the proper logical framework to model t...

Those numeral classifier languages like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese mobilize classifiers together with numerals in naming and counting objects in the world. Classifiers serve to classify objects according to their shape, function and other semantic features often culturally defined. Discrete (or fuzzy) numerals are used to count the number of objects. In Korean and Japanese, plural marking al...

In this paper, my primary objective is to present a formal semantic analysis of pluractionality, or plurality in the verbal domain, in Upriver Halkomelem (Coast Salish, BC; UH henceforth). Unlike most of the better-studied Indo-European languages, UH exhibits a robust pattern of plural marking on verbs. Galloway (1993: 323) identifies a range of interpretations that are associated with plural m...